[JoshTriplett]

And on current systems, updating every second would decrease battery life by preventing your system from sleeping. Modern systems can easily sleep for more than a second at a time, even with the screen on (and not updating).

I also, personally, can't stand to have distractions like that on my screen away from where I want to focus.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

That's why Apple got rid of the Time Machine icon animation, IIRC.

[adviceadam]

I had completely forgotten about the Time Machine icon animating before. Interesting. Odd choice perhaps because I imagine most people have the hard drive at their desk, when wall power is easily available. There is a setting that enables backing up on battery power but I think the default value is disabled.

[Sunset]

> Modern systems can easily sleep for more than a second at a time, even with the screen on (and not updating).

Good luck with that with quadrillion services chugging away in the background including file indexing service and all the spying bullshit.

[ams6110]

Displaying the clock in Mac OS doesn't prevent the machine from sleeping, whether seconds are shown or not.

[kristofferR]

He is talking about a different form of sleeping.